Sunday People

FRAMPTON: NO MORE BOOZING

- By Tom Hopkinson

CARL FRAMPTON says he won’t touch another drop of alcohol until he has hung up his gloves — if only to prove his wife Christine wrong.

Frampton,

(right) who takes on IBF

World featherwei­ght champion

Josh

Warrington at Manchester Arena on Saturday, said: “I’m teetotal — it will be a year on Boxing Day that I had my last drop of booze.

“I had a real skinful last year, with a pretty bad hangover. I was at a 50 Cent concert in Dublin and was drinking a zero alcohol bottle of beer, but I think it was spiked with proper booze because I drank it and startstart­ed feeling a wewee bit giddy.

“Now, I won’t even allow myself a pint after tthe

Wwarringto­n fight.fight My missus told me I was talking s*** – so a lot of this is to prove her wrong.”

Josh Warrington defends his IBF World featherwei­ght title against Carl Frampton exclusivel­y live on BT Sport Box Office on Saturday, December 22. Watch for just £ 19.95, for more info visit: www.bt.com/sportboxof­fice

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